2011•地理科学进展Requires access
Studies of Urban Regeneration
Yan Xiao-pei
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Abstract
Urban regenerationis a re-development process which is an inevitable experience at certain urban-ization stage,and under different backgrounds and geographical environments has different motivation mechanism,development mode and power relations,and has different economic,environmental and social effects.Based on the English literature in recent years about urban regeneration and the literature about renewal in China in the past 30 years,this paper summed up the studies on from the perspectives of geography,including the research scope,the study characteristics and the theories related to ur-ban regeneration,to explain the formation mechanism of regeneration,the policy,the regener-ation mode,the tools and the methodologies,as well as the developers in the project and the effects in different regions at different developing stages.Urban renewal movement origi-nated the massive renewal activities in the West after World War II.Because this kind of physical renewal destructed the previous social fabric and the integrity of the internal space,it was widely questioned.The term urban regenerationoriginally referred to an renaissance strategy which responded to the decline of old industrial cities after the transfer of the global industrial chain in the West,especially in Britain.Then it gradual-ly evolved to a city's comprehensive redevelopment activities,including other improvement areas within the city,to stimulate economic growth,to enhance vitality and to improve the competitiveness.With the globalizationandlocalization, the researchers in the world began to show concern on various types of ur-ban renewal movement and re-urbanization strategy.This paper summed up three future research directions of regeneration,including the internal mechanism between regeneration,city construction and econom-ic development,the micro-study of the individual behavior in and integrated redevelop-ment under the concept of sustainable development,and gave some suggestions to studies on future rede-velopment in China.